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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1498897593' post='3327801'] Ill do that too, so, keep the post EQ button on the in position? Blue [/quote] Be aware that, with the Post EQ button selected, any tweaks to your EQ while you're onstage will affect the signal sent to the desk. So if you increase the gain on your amp, the signal to the desk will also increase. So it's a good idea to avoid making any EQ adjustments to your amp, after the band starts playing, if you can. With Pre EQ selected, your DI out just acts like a standard DI box and any tweaks to your amp EQ will not effect the signal to the desk.

You can extend the life of a set of strings, and get the 'zing' back in them temporarily, by loosening them for 24 hrs and then re-tuning them. But if you're happy with the sound you have, and you have a light touch, I wouldn't bother changing them. I only change my strings when they start to get a bit dead.

[quote name='PawelG' timestamp='1498732379' post='3326615'] [url="https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/fender-squier-precision-bass-in-sunburst./1251728798"]https://www.gumtree....rst./1251728798[/url] [/quote] Now this one is dodgy. I don't see any '[color=#3C3241][font=Castledown, Arial, sans-serif][size=4] growling single-coil Jazz Bass bridge pickup with ceramic magnets.' on this Precision.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#3C3241][font=Castledown, Arial, sans-serif][size=4]When something is too good to be true......it usually is.[/size][/font][/color]

Some muse stuff might be a refreshing challenge for you. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm_5qWWDV8[/media]

I have a friend who supported Wilko a few years ago. He said he came across as a pretty grumpy guy. But this was before his cancer scare and miracle recovery. I would assume that whole experience, has meant he probably has lightened up considerably since my friend met him. I listened to an interview with him, on R2 recently, and he sounded proper cheery.

Congratulations to you both.

For a long time I was in the same position. Then my financial position improved and allowed me to experiment with different gear. But I well remember the unwieldy bass guitars and heavy, farting, bass amps, that I had to endure for years. I always recommend buying secondhand, because you get more bang for your buck. But if needs must there is always finance deals to be had if you buy new from big music stores, like GAK or Guitar Guitar.

I would recommend turning the bass down on your amp and rolling the tone off. Maybe add some mid. That should get some definition back in your sound.

[quote name='musicbassman' timestamp='1498290197' post='3323630'] Well, boo hoo for the guitar dealers and mass manufacturers – decent guitars (and basses) aren’t an ever evolving product with a limited life - like a family car that is worn out and obsolete after 10 years. You’re selling musical instruments, not refrigerators. Decent guitars, with a few exceptions, usually play just as well (or better) at 20 or 30 years old than when new. Unless they are physically damaged or subject to extremes of heat or humidity they still play perfectly and any minor electrical or fret problems can be quite easily fixed. So there is not just an ever decreasing customer base amongst the young, as the article explains, but most older players already have several guitars, and unless they have chronic GAS maybe rather wish they had a few less. Mass manufacturers can’t keep on churning out millions of guitars a year into an already saturated market, no matter how cheap and well made they are, so maybe their days are numbered. [/quote] True, guitars don't have a built in obsolescence like other consumer goods. To many people, the older a guitar is, the more desirable it becomes.

Interestingly, the mix for The Pretenders gets better as the gig goes on. Which is usually what happens with live music, as the sound engineer adjusts stuff on the fly. I also notice that the BBC mixes sound better with time (a week or two later). What I suspect is that the raw recordings, for the live videos, are remixed at a later stage.

My niece is in her mid twenties and she would disagree. She and her friends love guitar, based, bands. She loved Johnny Marr, and John Mayer (very different styles), when she was growing up. She also loved Courtney Love and her band Hole, which were very guitar based. She loved guitars so much that she stole her dad's and formed her own band. Her band is doing pretty good and she plays to sold out venues in the UK and Europe (she's toured the US too, a couple of times). She's now one of the 10 acts that have been shortlisted for the Scottish Album Of The Year awards 2017. Hopefully she'll inspire a whole new generation of kids to get themselves an electric guitar. I know it was the best decision, the 16 year old me, ever made. This is her...........guitar bands rule!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Jx2iXgYCM

Only Japanese Squiers were Silver Series. They have Silvers Series written on the headstock. This one doesn't. This one has a grounding strip. Only the Japanese Squiers had the grounding strip going from the bridge to the back pickup, like the Jazz basses in the early 60s did. The Korean models didn't (as far as I am aware). The serial number, which starts E10, shows that the neck was manufactured in Korea, in 1987/88

Put some cotton wool in your ears.......sorted

I think people who bring more than one bass to a gig in the Dog and Duck, probably have OCD. If you're touring with The Who, okay I'll let you off but if you aren't, you probably have checked that you didn't leave the gas on,3 times,before you left the house today.

I've heard him give that lesson before. And now when I play the wrong note, I just slide to the right one and people think I meant it

Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash

In one of the bands I play in, the singer also plays guitar. She said to me that she taught herself guitar, as an adult, but was given formal piano lessons as a child and that she can only play piano when she has sheet music in front of her, as this is how she was taught. She can't improvise or play by memory, however simple the song is. She only needs the sheet music when she plays piano, by the way, not guitar. I've heard this many times from classically trained musicians and I always find it very, very weird.

On the back of your GK500, you have a DI out as well. You also have a little button marked post and pre (you'll see the button on the back). If you choose pre, the DI out acts just like a clean DI box and any fiddling with your EQ will not affect this signal. If you choose post, then all EQ adustments that you make will affect the signal. You need to choose post so that you can use both channels, boost effect etc and all changes, that you make to your on stage sound, will be sent to the desk.

All That Jazz and Diamonds Are Forever - an eclectic set.

GK mb500 and GK mb800 are very light, small and insanely loud. Great punchy tone and a boost knob that makes it go all growly wowly, if that's your thing (you can tell I've never used that particular knob). You can drown out any puny, guitarist with these boys.

I would have thought so?

I think a standard Japanese Jazz would go for about £350 to £450 today. That's based on previous sales I've seen on here and ebay. I sold my, non export CIJ Jazz,for £450 about 4 years ago.

I've owned : ashdown abm 500 T.C. electronic classic 450 Fender TV 15 Ashdown Mibass 550 GK mb500 Of them all I liked the GK mb500 best. It's clean,punchy and it's loud. It is also as light as a feather. A worthy mention should go to the Hartke ha550. Which I've never owned but always liked the sound I've got while playing through them. They are pretty cheap new and a steal second-hand.